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Tomorrow’s experts
Advances in artificial intelligence
Honorary clinical research
fellow Dr Edward Korot was
supported by a springboard
award from the charity which
has put him at the forefront
of AI in eye health care. He
recently received two of the
most prestigious US awards
in ophthalmology, the Michels
and Head Fellowships,
awarded to the top
vitreoretinal surgical fellow
in the United States, and the
prestigious Gragoudas Award
from the (US) Macular Society.
We’re proud to be funding
Early career
research day
There are around 60 early career researchers and 75 PhD
students at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology. We’re proud
to support many of them and the fourth UCL Institute of
Ophthalmology Early Career Research Symposium which took
place at the Francis Crick Institute in June 2021 and was also
streamed live.
world-leading artificial
intelligence (AI) innovation in
vision research and eye health
and to see its impact.
Artificial intelligence, or AI, is an advancement in
computing where computer systems learn from data,
identify patterns and perform tasks that we would usually
consider as needing human intelligence, such as pattern
recognition informed decision-making.
This was an opportunity to showcase their work and learn
about other areas of research.